Charles Dickens Christmas Books provide early festive gift
Though the matching bindings were much later ones commissioned by London dealer Sotherans, a set of Charles Dickens’ five famous Christmas Books offered on August 28 by Potter & Potter (20% buyer’s premium) of Chicago were all firsts of 1843-48, and in some instances first issue or first state copies.
One of the books in this set sold for $24,000 (£17,440) was the first and most famous of them, the…